It's also funded by the CIA. Although Signal is/was also indirectly funded by US Congress via OTF, and some claim that means the CIA is somehow involved too. Of course, computers, the internet and tor also had major US government funding, for what it's worth.
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Because in a way, everything is political, to someone, whether you like it or not. Even mentioning the ACLU could imply there is some agenda behind what OP is doing.
and some nut on HN posted a base64'd infohash of the torrent including the 7z password
Sample size of 1 is not indicative of anything though... several entire families I know were in it when I checked, even people that have been dead for decades, still had their name, address history, DOB, SSN and phone number.
Personally I consider this way bigger than previous ones because of how accessible the data is. I could never find the previous Experian one, but there's several sources for this one now, and seems to have a lot more information in it.
Have you seen people?
Can't someone who has your SSN just thaw it themselves?
That work was not available when GrapheneOS was developed, and is not necessarily applicable to devices released after those findings... I still consider it a black box.
Not only that but it relies on the Pixel's black box "Titan" security chip, that google pinky-promised to open source but never did...
Unfortunately neither GSM nor UMTS works in the US anymore. Only LTE/VoLTE and above is supported.
Play App Signing is required for new apps.
Also now required is giving up your government identity document to google in order to keep publishing on the play store.
Things like Molly-FOSS might help better with that, keeping its database locked and encrypted at rest on its own separately from any OS encryption or security. Perhaps GrapheneOS or similar could be beneficial as well.
If you want something with not so many government ties, and maybe more decentralized, there is also SimpleX, Briar and Tox.